Woodbridge, Va. — Due to recent flooding in our area, the Red Cross will be using the Sharon Baucom Dale City Recreation Center (SBDCRC) as an emergency shelter. The SBDCRC was closed to the public beginning at 8 p.m. Saturday. The center will be used to provide temporary housing to Prince William County residents who lost their homes during the flooding, according to a Prince William County Park Authority press release.
Woodbridge, Va. — Officials and the community remembered 22 people from Prince William County who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001.
Police said 40-year-old Edgar Tobar, a construction employee, was standing near a roadway of a construction site when another employee operating an asphalt roller lost control of the machine and ran over Tobar, said a Fairfax County police spokesman.
Tobar was taken to a local hospital where he died.
NOVA shooter gets 5 years
The man who walked into the Woodbridge campus of Northern Virginia Community College in 2009 and opened fire will spend five years in prison, according to insidenova.com.
Occoquan, Va. — When you live by the Occoquan River, there’s a few things you have to accept, like the possibility of flooding. But on Thursday night it wasn’t the river that toppled its banks, but the Ballywhack Creek which runs through town.
Photos by: Mary Davidson
Story by: Uriah Kiser
Update
The Area Agency on Aging, which serves PrinceWilliamCounty, Manassas and ManassasPark has issued the following announcement on its services for today:
As a result, VRE has made the decision not to operate service on Friday, September 9. With more rain expected overnight, we prefer to give the railroads the time they need to ensure that the tracks are fully operational. In addition, because the track issues happened during service, several of our train sets are currently being housed in our mid-day storage yard in DC, making the logistics even more complicated.
–VRE statement
SCHOOLS CLOSED, LOCAL EMERGENCY DECLARED
